Storehouse for vegetables.



QM. E. BRADLEY. STORBHOUSE FOR VEGETABLBS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1908.

'Patented Sept. 14, 1,909.

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K M. E. BRADLEY. STOREHOUSE FOR VEGETABLES.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1908.

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Specic'ation of Letters Patent.

lAapiicatimi area september 19, 190s. serial No. 453,754.

for vegetables, and has for an object to pro-- vide a house of thischaracter especially adapted for storing otatoes and to provideeffective means to e ect an artificial circulation of air to absorb themoisture "from the potatoes or vegetables. j A further object of thisinvention is to' provide simple forms of bins for retaining the potatoesat convenient points lin the- ,house, and to provide novel forms ofventilators. y

Other objects and advantages will be apparent as the nature of theinvention isbetter disclosed, and it will be understood thatv changeswithin the scope of the claim may be resorted. to without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specication, and in which likenumerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure 1 is a vertical section through the house, Fig. 2 is a view takenon the line 2-'2 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1, Fi 4 is a top plan View.

Re erring now more particularly to the drawings, there is shown a storehouse 1 which preferably consists of a front wall 2, a rear wall3, andside walls 4. The said walls are Yeach formed from anv outer secftion 5and an inner section 6, and as clearly.

shown upon reference to the drawings, saw-v dust or .other .insulatingmaterial is .placed between the sections forming the said walls. Thewalls' 4 are each provided with a door opening 7 and a door 8, the doorsbeing constructed inthe manner identical to the construction of thewalls of the house. A top or floor 9 is provided and consists oi vspacedmembers 10 and 11 between which is shown sawdust or -'the like 12. Thetop or ioor 9 is provided with a centrally located lue 13 which opensinto the house as clearlyshown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the saidtop or' loo'r is provided with 'a plurality of ventilators-14 which arepreferably of rectangular form and are each provided with a top 15,foraminous walls 16, and a hinged door 17. The doors 17 have connectedthereto ends of cords or similar flexible elements 18 which are passedover pulleys 19, and the free ends of the said cords or elements areprovided with weights 20 adapted to hold the said door 17in closedposition. Suitable operatinggcords or the like 21 are connected to thedoors 17 and their free ends are connected in a suitable manner tocleats or the like which may be arranged or located at suitable pointsin the house. It will be seen that upon operating the cords 21 the doors-17 of the ventilators may be conveniently opened to allow the desiredquantity of air to enter the house as is obvious.- 'Ihe lower ends ofthe walls are prei erably mounted upon a concrete or stone foundation asindicated :1t-22.

Spaced beams 23 are located adjacentto the top or Hoor 9 and these beamsare connected at their ends to the walls 2.and 3.- Siinilar beams 24farelocated at the lower end of the house and are connected at their ends tothe walls 2 and 3, and the said beams 23 are connected by verticaluprights 25. Theconstruction is such that the space between the beamsforms an aisle, and at each end of the said aisle a door 26 is providedlwhich'may be used as entrance and exitdoors clearlyv shown-in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings.y

The construction ofthe slats'27 and 28 is such that air chambers 29 areformed-between the walls of the house and the said slats 28 and thuselfects a thorough ventilation. A. series of cleats 30 are secured tothe walls 2 and 3, upon their inner faces, and similar cleats-31 aresecured to the uprights 25 and to the walls 4 of the house as will beseen upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and these cleatsare thus 'adapted to support a plurality 'of slatted platforms 32. Itwill be seen that by provlding the slatted platforms 32 and arrangingthe same Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

d and disposed between the uprights is of the fan blades 38 upon theshaft, air curbins from falling into the aisle I provideqa plurality ofelements 33 adapted to receive sla-ts or the like as will be clearly,understood.

Beneath the top or floor 9 of the house,

shown a horizontal shaft 34 having one of its ends journaled in abearing 35 upon the wall 2, and the other end of the said shaft isextended through a bushing 36 carried by the wall 3, and carries adriven pulley 37 which may receive its power by means of any suitablemotor. The shaft is provided with a plurality of fan blades 38 arrangedor disposed ina manner to deliver air current into the bins orcompartments previously described.

In operation, potatoes or vegetables to be treated are placed in thebins, and the doors 17 of the ventilators are opened to the desiredextent to permit a freshsupply of air. After the doors of the house havebeenv securely closed, the shaft 34 is driven in the manner previouslydescribed, and by means rents will be effectively discharged throughoutthe interior of the house and moisture from the potatoes will beeffectively evaporated.

A gable roof 19a is provided and is located directly above theventilators 14 to protect the same and which has its outer i edgesextending beyond the upper ends of I the vertical walls forming thehouse but in spaced relation thereto so that the proper amount ofnatural air can be conveyed to the ventilators.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

In a preserving house of the class specilied, an inclosure having aplurality of bins disposed therein and arranged with respect to eachother to form a centrally located aisle, said inclosure having doors atthe ends of the aisle, said inclosure having a top por-l tionprovidedwith a series of ventilators formed of foraminous material and havingtheir upper portions extended above the top of the housing, doorsadapted to normally close the lower ends of the ventilators, operatincords connected with the doors and eX- tendlng into 4the said aisle, agable roof carried by the inclosure and having portions adj acent to itsouter edges disposed in spaced relation to the top of the inclosure, acentrally located flue extending from the roof into the inclosure, and alongitudinally eX- tending fan shaft revolubly connected at its endswith the wall-s of the inclosure at the

